Reading article tables Klandermans, Wood & Hughes, McAdam “High Risk” model

Conditional probabilities.79 Klandermans & Oegema 1987

Klandermans & Oegema: Network Effects LinksNoneFormalInformalBoth % Participate0%7%24%19% Table suggests that informal links are most important!! Tilt of movement to educated, leftist, men came through networks, NOT opinions for/against movement

Klandermans & Oegema: Deciding to Go 1.Left parties, educated are key. Overlap with expect friends to go 2.Additional effect of believing Dutch government has effect 3.Majority who said they would go did not (6/10): cited specific “reasons”

Reading regression tables Look for symbols about “significance”, usually *’s. (Check footnotes, occasionally non-significant results are *’d.) Significant = effect too large to be due to chance. MORE SIGNIFICANT IS SMALLER P, p<.05 is significant, p<.001 is more significant. Look at sign of coefficient: + or -, and meaning of variables. [In a few cases, the coefficients are odds ratios instead, which are above 1.0 if effect is positive and below 1.0 if effect is negative.] Unstandardized “b” or “B” coefficients can be compared across equations for the same variables Standardized $ (beta) coefficients tell you how “strong” each variable is compared to others in the same equation.

Interpreting Klandermans & Oegema regression: DV=intend to go Equivalent to saying: LogOdds(Intend) =.04Age -.32Gender +.37Educ Voting –7.53 Numbers in parentheses are standard errors. Coefficients are significant when they are substantially larger than their standard error. Here, only education and voting for left parties are significant. Table SHOULD have labeled direction for gender, voting

Klandermans & Oegema: Deciding to Go 1.Left parties, educated are key. Overlap with expect friends to go 2.Additional effect of believing Dutch government has effect 3.Majority who said they would go did not (6/10): cited specific “reasons”

Reading Wood & Hughes Table B is undstandardized regression coefficient; gives equation for attitude toward pornography. The beta ( $ )column gives standardized coefficients. You can use it to find which independent variables are strongest. Here, age, then sex, then education. The t column is for a t-test, ratio of B to its standard error (not shown). The symbols show that all independent variables are significant.

Wood & Hughes Table Significant predictors are older, female (-male), -education, rural now & rural at 16, Southern manual or lower white collar occupation, came from low income family, not Black, Catholic & Conservative Protestant.

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